RE: [rdiff-backup-users] Help with rdiff-backup and cron

[Chris Young]

I found the problem.

Simple path problem.

Thanks.

Chris Young

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Tittsler [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 6:37 PM
To: Chris Young
Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Help with rdiff-backup and cron


On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 06:25:42PM -0500, Chris Young wrote:
> I am having trouble getting rdiff-backup to run as a cron job.
> 
> I'm not sure if I need to change the format of my cron command. The 
> command shown works fine from the command line.
> 
> Here is my cron entry:
> 
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> # (/tmp/crontab.17874 installed on Wed Jan 28 17:56:25 2004) # (Cron 
> version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp
> $)
> 0       0      *       *       *       rdiff-backup -v6
> --exclude-filelist /home/backup/domain/include_files 
> address@hidden::/ /home/backup/domain/backup

Is rdiff-backup in the PATH when cron runs?  Did you try putting the
full path to the rdiff-backup executable?

Do you get any mail when the cronjob runs?  (Is cron running? :-)